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[Drygioni]

Not much to say other than I enjoyed that very much, and Phillipe >>>>>> Mussolini, Mori and all the other guys who have attempted to end the Cosa Nostra.

All you need is Phillipe style harsh-but-fair motherly love, surely the one thing all Italian* men can understand. It's so obvious.


*fuck*ng hell, I think calling the Mafia Italian is a bit insulting actually, seeing as it's a Sicilian organisation. It's like if one of you chaps called Glasgow Rangers an English club I'd be foaming at the mouth, so in short don't ice me.

[littlefallsmets]

The Italian part of my family is Tuscan and... if you went to the village where my grandpa was born and asked someone if they were Sicilian, they would punch you in the mouth. Northern Italian find Romans annoying and flat-out hate Sicilians for... some reason.

I dunno why, of course, but it is worth noting.

[theinevitable]

Sicilians are considered uncouth and uncivilized. Barbaric and uneducated. Provincial. Regionalism is universal, depressingly enough.

I mean, the Mafia is Sicilian the same way fried chicken is American. IE, it is, but that is not the most specific word to use.

That is my understanding, at least.

[littlefallsmets]

See, all I know is that I have known some very hot ladies of Sicilian extraction and that's all that matters to me.

If your ethnicity has some hot ladies in it, you are fine with me.

[MagFlare]

Sicilians are considered uncouth and uncivilized. Barbaric and uneducated. Provincial. Regionalism is universal, depressingly enough.

Europeans have had to live right next to each other for thousands of years. Of course they're going to hate the hell out of their neighbors, usually for really stupid, petty reasons like which side of a river they grew up on.

Americans, on the other hand, hate each other for perfectly sensible reasons: the color of their skin, how much money they have, etc.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Europeans have had to live right next to each other for thousands of years. Of course they're going to hate the hell out of their neighbors, usually for really stupid, petty reasons like which side of a river they grew up on.

Americans, on the other hand, hate each other for perfectly sensible reasons: the color of their skin, how much money they have, etc.

Thanks for adding that lens to my view of european history. Other lenses: Everyone was drunk. They had to drink alcoholic beverages because the water was bad.

I think Americans hate each other because you were either here, and "the new guy" moved in or you're "the new guy" and everyone is suspicious of you. Theres few places in america where, like europe, long standing communities can grow to hate other long standing communities.

[Doc]

Don't for get how lazy they are when they're stealing our jobs!

[wombat]

Everyone hates their neighbors, whether it's the country next door that's just slightly different or the guy next door who's just slightly different. I mean, if you're in Italy, what's the point of hating people in Greenland? You're not going to get much entertainment out of hating people you never see.

[Victoria Waterfield]

Everyone hates their neighbors, whether it's the country next door that's just slightly different or the guy next door who's just slightly different. I mean, if you're in Italy, what's the point of hating people in Greenland? You're not going to get much entertainment out of hating people you never see.

But it can make your vacation that much more special.

[jaydub]

Maybe the real purpose of America is to give the world someone in common to hate, so they can ease off on slaughtering their neighbors.  What with TV and movies and Britney Spears, they probably see us more than they see each other now.

[colmore]

Everyone always talks about how the Middle East is such a nightmare and how it's been at war since the beginning of time.

This isn't true.  The Middle East has had centuries long periods of peace over the past two thousand years.  There's only one region of the world that has been almost continuously at war with itself since before Rome.  Europe.  Don't forget it.

If 14th century France and Germany were around right now, you'd see Africa style public service ads about them.

[littlefallsmets]

Just about every conflict in the Middle East right now, by the by, is directly or indirectly fueled by some kind of European/North-American intervention over there, let us not forget.

Oil grabs by America, arbitrary border alignments by European powers that shoved ethnic and religious groups into the same "country", old Cold War "enemy of my enemy" bullshit... if not for the actions of those outside powers, most of the Middle Eastern countries would be kinda keeping to themselves, focusing on oppressing their own people with strange mumbo-jumbo not anyone else's.

I'm... I'm just sayin' here.

[Arachno-capitalist]

What, you mean people just want to be left the fuck alone? Imagine that.

And apparently the middle east was the only peaceful place in the world for all of history. All of those ancient rivalries and wars fought for hundreds of years were actually masterminded by europeans and jews.